DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Google

IBM

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2016

2014

2017

2016

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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
Immediate 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

yes

ACID

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)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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