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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hsqldb.org

postgis.net

realm.io

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

postgis.net/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Baidu

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2018

2001

2005

2014

Current release

0.9

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java, SQL

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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