DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

machbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

Machbase

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2013

2010

1994

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Hadoop integration

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.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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