DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Stardog vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Stardog vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.stardog.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.stardog.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Stardog-Union

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2015

2010

2017

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

depending on used data model

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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 can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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