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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Spatial extension of H2A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score62.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score9.20
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#357  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerygreenplum.orgwww.h2gis.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperGooglePivotal Software Inc.CNRSBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2010200520132002
Current release7.0.0, September 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no

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