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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hsqldb.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.keydb.devlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182001201920152001
Current release0.92.7.2, June 2023V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, SQLLuanono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes 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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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