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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
postgis.netwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhugegraph.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftBaiduDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2010201820052000
Current release0.93.4.2, February 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaCC
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS
Unix
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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