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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2010

2012

2015

2009

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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 and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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