DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vitess

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kinetica.com

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

vitess.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.kinetica.com

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Google

Kinetica

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2010

2012

2010

1992

2013

Current release

7.1, August 2021

5.4, July 2022

17, July 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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