DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. ToroDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. ToroDB vs. YDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Google

Spotify

Google

8Kdata

Yandex

Initial release

2010

2014

2011

2016

2019

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

with automatic compression on writes

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)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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