DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Description

In-memory caching system

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Website

cachelot.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/google/leveldb

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2010

2011

2014

2011

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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)

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