DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Spotify

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

2015

2014

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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