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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2018

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.9

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

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

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes

Journaling Streams

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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