DBMS > H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2005

2016

2018

2014

2018

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

0.9

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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

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