DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2014

2001

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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