DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2010

2016

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, using Riak Security

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