DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MarkLogic vs. OceanBase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MarkLogic vs. OceanBase vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	50.58
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#253	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.28
Rank	#67	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.progress.com/marklogic

en.oceanbase.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2016

2001

2010

2018

Current release

11.0, December 2022

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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