DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

boilerbay.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2002

1994

Current release

4.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

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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