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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hive.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Esgyn

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Baidu

Google

Initial release

2015

2012

2018

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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