DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2010

2014

2010

2014

2001

Current release

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

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 can be defined per database

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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