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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

hazelcast.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Hazelcast

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2008

1991

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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