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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.70
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	62.88
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#239	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

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