DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. MarkLogic vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. MarkLogic vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.leanxcale.com

www.marklogic.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

LeanXcale

MarkLogic Corp.

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2015

2001

2016

Current release

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

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

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users and roles

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