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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Memcached vs. VoltDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.memcached.org

www.voltdb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

VoltDB Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2010

2003

2010

2015

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
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#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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