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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-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 DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch 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
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduActian CorporationMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201320152001
Current release0.911.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyesyes 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
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
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 jobsyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraSharding 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 HBaseIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes 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 infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate 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 datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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