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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HugeGraph vs. JanusGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
janusgraph.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleBaiduLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release2016201720182017
Current release0.90.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowvia hugegraph-sparkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissionsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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