DBMS > EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Baidu

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2018

2011

2014

Current release

0.9

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

optional

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Groovy
Java
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

via hugegraph-spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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

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