DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2017

2010

2015

2013

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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