DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

opennms.github.io/newts

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Google

InterSystems

OpenNMS Group

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2018

2014

2012

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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)

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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