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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Baidu

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2018

2009

2015

Current release

0.9

3.2.0, December 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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