DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Titan vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Titan vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

2010

2014

2012

2023

Current release

0.9

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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