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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

quasar.ai

sphinxsearch.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

sphinxsearch.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Baidu

quasardb

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2009

2001

2011

Current release

0.9

3.14.1, January 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

with tags

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.Net

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Based on Windows Authentication

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