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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiterockset.comsphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2019200120222009
Current release3.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++RustJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datedynamic typingnoyesyes
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.no infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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