DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2015

2016

2021

2010

Current release

0.9

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

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

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes (replicated cache)

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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