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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Linter vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
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Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

linter.ru

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Google

Hazelcast

relex.ru

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2008

1990

2014

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

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
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

.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

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

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

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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