DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. SWC-DB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. SWC-DB vs. Trino

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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

linter.ru

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Spotify

relex.ru

Alex Kashirin

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2014

1990

2020

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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