DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2010

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

ACID

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

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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