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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. NSDb vs. RavenDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

nsdb.io

ravendb.net

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Google

Hypertable Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2009

2017

2010

2018

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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)

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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