DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP, formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2017

1994

2018

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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