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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. YottaDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release201820012001
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 infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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 fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolPostgreSQL 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
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnono
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 supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 permissionsnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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