DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

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Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

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Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

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Developer

Google

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

TmaxSoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2003

2019

Current release

6, April 2015

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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