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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenPie

Initial release

2010

2012

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

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, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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