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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle'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 HadoopA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Oracles in-memory data grid solutionAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablehive.apache.orgjanusgraph.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOracleSimer Plaha
Initial release20152012201720072018
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.6.3, February 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
Triggersnonoyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factoryesyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDconfigurableAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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