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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Simer Plaha
Initial release201820102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release0.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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