DBMS > Geode vs. HugeGraph vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HugeGraph vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Baidu

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2002

2018

2012

2000

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Unix

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

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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 per client and object definable

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

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