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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Google

Baidu

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2018

2001

2005

Current release

0.9

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java, SQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

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

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)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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