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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. Hive vs. Oracle vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

hbase.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hbase.apache.org/book.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2008

2012

1980

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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