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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Esgyn

Baidu

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2015

2018

2014

1995

Current release

15585

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

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

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