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Google BigQuery System Properties

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Google

Initial release

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

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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