DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Neo4j vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Neo4j vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	42.68
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

neo4j.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

neo4j.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

Neo4j, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

informationpartners gmbh

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2007

1999

2015

2012

Current release

5.23, August 2024

1.8.0, 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes using Neo4j Fabric

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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