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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

2014

Current release

0.9

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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