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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Ingres vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Ingres vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduActian CorporationByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release20181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20162016
Current release0.911.2, May 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
C++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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HugeGraphIngresTerarkDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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