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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaiduAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132008201820092012
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissionsnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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