DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Google

Hazelcast

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2008

2017

2007

2009

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

Role-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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