DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2005

2003

2005

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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