DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. STSdb

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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 info

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing info

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	25.63
Rank	#28	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	11.96
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#284	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

pivotal.io/pivotal-greenplum

stssoft.com/products/stsdb-4-0

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

gpdb.docs.pivotal.io

Developer

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2005

2011

Current release

5.10.0, July 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Open Source info

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) for whole datasets, not for individual tables info

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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