DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hbase.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2010

2008

2017

1991

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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