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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake

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Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2018

2014

Current release

3.4, August 2019

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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