DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Baidu

IBM

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

1994

2019

Current release

0.9

2.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

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

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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