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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rocksdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Chris Davis

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2006

2018

2013

2011

Current release

0.9

9.2.1, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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