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System Properties Comparison Apache HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.17
Rank	#317	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	2.50
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#201	Overall
	#30	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alachisoft

Initial release

2018

2010

2005

Current release

0.9

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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