DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2015

2007

2008

Current release

14.1, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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