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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBaiduMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.YanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20182020200120152017
Current release0.93.5.1, February 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnononoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnononoyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseReal-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infobased on RocksDB
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 permissionsyesnonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
HugeGraphSpaceTimeSphinxYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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