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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Apache HugeGraph vs. GeoSpock

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Name

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Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

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Score	99.19
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#280	Overall
	#23	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

geospock.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Baidu

GeoSpock

Initial release

2008

2018

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

0.9

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

also supports composite index and range index

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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Market metrics

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