DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.leanxcale.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Google

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2010

2015

2012

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

through Apache Derby

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

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)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

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