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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hive.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Baidu

Google

Initial release

2006

2012

2018

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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