DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfinityDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfinityDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

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	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

boilerbay.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2017

2002

2016

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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