DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1984

2011

1994

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23.3, December 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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