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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. Kinetica vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Kinetica

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2005

2012

1998

1999

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

7.1, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

5.7.5

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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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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