DBMS > Blueflood vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

hbase.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2008

2018

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

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

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users, roles and permissions

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

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