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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBaiduIBMSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20181983 infohost version199220012003
Current release0.912.1, October 201617, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
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 VersionnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
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)Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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