DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2010

2007

2014

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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