DBMS > Apache Doris vs. HugeGraph vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. HugeGraph vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Baidu

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2017

2018

1995

2013

2015

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

0.9

8.4.0, April 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Key customers

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