DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. Linter

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.harperdb.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2

linter.ru

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Google

HarperDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

relex.ru

Initial release

2010

2017

2010

1983

host version

1990

Current release

3.1, August 2021

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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