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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.monetdb.org

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2004

2005

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic single-row operations

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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