DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oushu

Initial release

2010

2005

2010

2002

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic 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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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