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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. HugeGraph vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Baidu

Simer Plaha

Timescale

Initial release

2016

2018

2017

Current release

1.2, November 2023

0.9

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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