DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TimesTen

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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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

IBM

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

1998

Current release

2.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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