DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. ITTIA vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. ITTIA vs. Memcached

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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.

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2010

2005

2002

2007

2003

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0

8.7

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

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

Database file passwords

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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