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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LMDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	48.89
Rank	#24	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#118	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.59
Rank	#92	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.61
Rank	#91	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Google

Symas

Sybase, SAP

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2010

2011

1993

2015

Current release

0.9.29, March 2021

Scylla Open Source 4.6, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

in-memory tables

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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