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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational 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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Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comsphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHazelcastSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2008200120091987
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonoyes
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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