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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. FatDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. TypeDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

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

typedb.com/docs

Developer

McObject

FatCloud

Baidu

Google

Vaticle

Initial release

2001

2012

2018

2014

2016

Current release

8.2, 2021

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

via applications

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

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

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

yes

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

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users, roles and permissions

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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