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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. Memgraph vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
memgraph.comsphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsmemgraph.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperHazelcastBaiduMemgraph LtdSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20082018201720012014
Current release5.3.6, November 20230.93.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparknonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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