DBMS > BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Linter

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

linter.ru

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Chris Davis

Hypertable Inc.

relex.ru

Initial release

2015

2010

2006

2009

1990

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and 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)

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

locking

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 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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