DBMS > Derby vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

2005

2012

2014

2017

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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

Role-based access control

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