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DBMS > Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. SurrealDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cnsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142018201019992022
Current release0.9V8.0, August 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC and JavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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