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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Baidu

Amazon Web Services

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2006

2018

2021

1987

Current release

0.9

2.5.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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