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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

kx.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

code.kx.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Baidu

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Google

Initial release

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

0.9

3.6, May 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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