DBMS > Derby vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. LevelDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Google

Initial release

1997

2010

2014

2011

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

token access

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