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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HugeGraph vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Exasol

Google

Baidu

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2017

2018

2015

Current release

0.9

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

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

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

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Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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 rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

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