DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

Embarcadero

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

1984

2004

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes, using Riak Security

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