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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2012

2017

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Data scheme

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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