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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. ClickHouse vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

clickhouse.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

IBM

Initial release

2015

2016

2010

2014

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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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