DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Exasol

Firebird Foundation

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2007

1994

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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 according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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