DBMS > GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Amazon Web Services

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2004

2018

2013

2021

1999

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users, roles and permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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