DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NebulaGraph vs. SQream DB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NebulaGraph vs. SQream DB 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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

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

sqream.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.sqream.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Google

IBM

Vesoft Inc.

SQream Technologies

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

2017

2019

2017

2012

Current release

2.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

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

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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