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System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. TempoIQ vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	5.79
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#356	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS

Website

sphinxsearch.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2001

2012

2009

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple authentication-based access control

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