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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/spanner

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

Altibase

Google

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

1999

2010

2017

2009

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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