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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
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
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsphinxsearch.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBaiduMicrosoftOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20182015201120011999
Current release0.9V123.3, December 20233.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalnoyes
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 fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolODBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding 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 HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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