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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Spotify

Baidu

Initial release

2014

2018

2005

Current release

0.9

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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