DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. MarkLogic vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. MarkLogic vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

griddb.net

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.griddb.net

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

Toshiba Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2010

2013

2001

2015

Current release

5.1, August 2022

11.0, December 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

on the application server

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID at container level

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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