DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2015

2013

2018

2014

2011

Current release

0.9

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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