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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
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
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally TerarkJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2018200120162019
Current release0.93.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnononono
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 supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnono

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