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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Rocket Software
Initial release2018200120201985
Current release0.93.5.1, February 20233.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basic
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 supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoconfigurable
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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