DBMS > Derby vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Baidu

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

2010

2018

2012

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.9

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

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