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

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA 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 featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesBaiduHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2000201819942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001
Current release15.5, September 20200.94.4, October 202110 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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