DBMS > HBase vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2017

1980

2013

1984

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

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

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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