DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Google

IBM

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2017

1984

1992

2006

Current release

2.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

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