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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rethinkdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Baidu

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2018

2009

2017

Current release

0.9

2.4.1, August 2020

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

range based

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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