DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2010

2008

2015

2010

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

configurable

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.

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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