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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2010

2008

2003

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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 query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

using Google App Engine

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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)

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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