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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserocksdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGoogleIBMFacebook, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release20102014201320142017
Current release8.11.4, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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