DBMS > BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2gis.org

pouchdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2010

2013

2012

2009

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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 REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

optional

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)

yes

based on H2

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