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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HugeGraph vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Baidu

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Vaticle

Initial release

2015

2018

2000

2016

Current release

0.9

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

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

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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