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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

Initial release

2018

2010

Current release

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

yes

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

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

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 document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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