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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Google

IBM

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2010

2014

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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