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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Pinecone vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Pinecone vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GooglePinecone Systems, IncSAP, formerly SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162015201919942011
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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