DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MongoDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MongoDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.mongodb.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Kyligence, Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2015

2016

2009

2012

Current release

0.9

Apache Ignite 2.6

6.0.7, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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