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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBaiduMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20182015200520012016
Current release0.9V13.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
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 serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding 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 infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
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 graphnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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