DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Google

Baidu

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2018

2015

2014

Current release

0.9

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges 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

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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