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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Memgraph vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Baidu

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

Initial release

2005

2018

2017

2010

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

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

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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