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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Newts vs. PostgreSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Newts vs. PostgreSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
opennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgresql.orgquasar.aiwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgresql.org/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperBaiduOpenNMS GroupPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerquasardbSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201820141989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20092014
Current release0.916.3, May 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infobased on Cassandrapartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashSharding infoconsistent hashingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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