DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

IBM

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2010

2014

2016

1985

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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