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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kinetica.com

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.kinetica.com

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Kinetica

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2010

2012

2017

Current release

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users, roles and permissions

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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