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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201819942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092001
Current release0.94.4, October 202110 R1, October 20182.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsno
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioningSharding inforange basedSharding 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 HBasenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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