DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

2014

2009

2014

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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