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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Memcached vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.memcached.org

sqream.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.sqream.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SQream Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2010

2003

2017

2022

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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