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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph vs. YottaDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinyottadb.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2018200120092001
Current release0.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnonono
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 supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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