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

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 H2A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA 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 DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
questdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehugegraph.apache.org/­docsquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSBaiduQuestDB Technology IncAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132018201420092012
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 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 languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
TinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaGroovy
Java
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesnoACID
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.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissionsnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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H2GISHugeGraphQuestDBTinkerGraphTitan
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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