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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. OrientDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.progress.com/openedge

orientdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.lmdb.tech/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

Symas

Progress Software Corporation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2010

2011

1984

2010

2017

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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)

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

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