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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.kinetica.comquestdb.iowww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBaiduKineticaQuestDB Technology IncYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2018201220142017
Current release0.97.1, August 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocoldepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes
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HugeGraphKineticaQuestDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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