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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Baidu

Initial release

2018

2010

2016

2018

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

5.10, January 2022

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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, 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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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