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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.comyanza.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduIBMMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release20181983 infohost version201520012015
Current release0.912.1, October 2016V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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