DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Redis vs. Sqrrl vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Redis vs. Sqrrl vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

redis.com
redis.io

sqrrl.com

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Baidu

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2009

2012

2018

2011

Current release

0.9

7.2.4, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with RediSQL module

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

through RedisGears

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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