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

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#317	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	2.50
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.12
Rank	#81	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

questdb.io

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2018

2010

2014

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

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

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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