DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Netezza vs. TimesTen vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Netezza vs. TimesTen vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/google/leveldb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

IBM

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Rocket Software

Initial release

2010

2011

2000

1998

1985

Current release

1.23, February 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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