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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpaceTime

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperMicrosoftChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20102006200820162020
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonJavaC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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