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System Properties Comparison Apache HugeGraph vs. Databend vs. Dolt vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.18
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#290	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	674.32
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.databend.com

docs.dolthub.com

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Baidu

Databend Labs

DoltHub Inc

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2018

2021

2018

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

0.9

1.0.59, April 2023

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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