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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2005

2002

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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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