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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Hypertable vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Hypertable vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduHypertable Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201820092014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001
Current release0.90.9.8.11, March 201610 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding 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 HBaseselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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