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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2010

2008

2010

2023

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

yes

Access Control Lists

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