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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Baidu

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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