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DBMS > HBase vs. Hive vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Hive vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTabledata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orghive.apache.orgterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometerminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008201220182017
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.1.3, April 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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