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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

hbase.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Baidu

Initial release

2010

2008

2018

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users, roles and permissions

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