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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan vs. XTDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
quasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduquasardbAurelius, owned by DataStaxJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20182009200920122019
Current release0.93.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexyes infowith tagsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APITinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkwith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDBoptionalyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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