DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sadasengine.com

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

Progress Software Corporation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1984

2009

2006

1994

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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