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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Baidu

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

1995

2019

2018

Current release

0.9

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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