DBMS > BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Machbase

Initial release

2015

2010

2005

2013

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control

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