DBMS > Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

prometheus.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2018

1989

2015

2009

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

0.9

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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