DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	10.18
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

siridb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.siridb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

IBM

Cesbit

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2015

2000

2017

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

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

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

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