DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memcached vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memcached vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.memcached.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

IBM

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2017

2003

2013

1999

Current release

2.0

1.6.25, March 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

ODBC

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++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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