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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Google

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2010

2017

2007

2011

Current release

2.0

14.1, August 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP 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++
Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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