DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2018

2014

2020

2017

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

Role-based access control

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