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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
objectbox.ioprometheus.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2018201720152001
Current release0.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneShardingSharding 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 HBaseonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.
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 permissionsyesnono
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