DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Baidu

Kinetica

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

2011

2014

Current release

0.9

7.1, August 2021

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

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

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