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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Baidu

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2018

2010

2017

Current release

0.9

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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13 June 2023

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