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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. QuestDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
questdb.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaiduQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20102008200820182014
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 20210.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systems.NETAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions 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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissions
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHazelcastHBaseHugeGraphQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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