DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

sqream.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

IBM

Alachisoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

2010

2014

2005

2017

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 and pessimistic 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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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