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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Typesense

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2018200120032015
Current release0.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyesno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnoAccess rights for users and roles

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