DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

Developer

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

Google

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2010

2005

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Role-based access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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