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DBMS > Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Sphinx

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.leanxcale.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduLeanXcaleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201820152001
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
Java
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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