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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Baidu

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2001

2014

2018

Current release

0.9

2.7.2, June 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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