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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hive vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hive.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2010

2016

2012

2013

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

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