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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2018

2013

2001

2019

Current release

0.9

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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