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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2013

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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 of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

by Federation

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

none

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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