DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. NebulaGraph vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. NebulaGraph vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

raima.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.raima.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Vesoft Inc.

Raima Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

2012

2019

1984

2012

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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