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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Riak KV

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score62.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201020102009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation language.NET and CErlang
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesErlang
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yes, using Riak Security

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