DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

memgraph.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.keydb.dev

memgraph.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Google

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2010

2019

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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