DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2017

2006

2015

1994

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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