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DBMS > Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Tigris

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NameSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitesphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2001201820172022
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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