DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Solr vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Solr vs. SQream DB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

solr.apache.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2006

2017

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Java plugins

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking

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

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

yes

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