DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. OpenQM vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. OpenQM vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

2010

1993

2015

2005

Current release

3.4-12

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

multiple readers, single writer

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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