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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2001

Current release

0.9

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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