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System Properties Comparison Apache HugeGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#317	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	7.34
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.50
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Baidu

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2018

2017

2010

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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