DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

Initial release

2010

2016

2010

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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