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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
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
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchspark.apache.org/­sqlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.8Kdata
Initial release20182015201420012016
Current release0.9V13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnonononono
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, utilizing Spark CoreSharding 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 infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authenticationnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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