Sparksee (graph database)


Sparksee is a high-performance and scalable graph database management system written in C++. From version 6.0, Sparksee has shifted its focus to embedded systems and mobile, becoming the first graph database specialized in mobile platforms with versions for IOS and Android.
Its development started in 2006 and its first version was available on Q3 - 2008. The sixth version is available since Q2-2021. There is a free community version, for academic or evaluation purposes, available to download, limited to 1 million nodes, no limit on edges.
Sparksee is a product originated by the research carried out at DAMA-UPC. In March 2010 a spin-off called Sparsity-Technologies has been created at the UPC to commercialize and give services to the technologies developed at DAMA-UPC.
DEX changed name to on its 5th release in February 2014.
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Graph model

Sparksee is based on a graph database model, that is basically characterized by three properties: data structures are graphs or any other structure similar to a graph; data manipulation and queries are based on graph-oriented operations; and there are data constraints to guarantee the integrity of the data and its relationships.
A Sparksee graph is a labeled-property graph. Labeled because nodes and edges in a graph belong to types. Attributed because both nodes and edges may have attributes and Multigraph meaning that there may be multiple edges between the same nodes even if they are from the same edge type. It supports both directed edges as well as undirected.
One of its main characteristics is its performance storage and retrieval for large graphs implemented with specialized structures.

Technical details

Also

  • D. Domínguez-Sal, P. Urbón-Bayes, A.Giménez-Vañó, S. Gómez-Villamor, N.Martínez-Bazán, J.L. Larriba-Pey. Survey of Graph Database Performance on the HPC Scalable Graph Analysis Benchmark.