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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

2012

2015

2000

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

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