DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2018

2010

2012

2000

Current release

0.9

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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