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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

hive.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Google

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2008

2012

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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