DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Interbase vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Interbase vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Name

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Embarcadero

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2016

1984

2012

2016

Current release

5.10, January 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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