DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Embarcadero

SAP, Sybase

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

1984

1987

1998

2017

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

16.0

Release 22.1

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java and Transact-SQL

PL/SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

based on RocksDB

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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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