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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graph Engine vs. SAP HANA vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.graphengine.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Role-based access control

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