DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Titan vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Titan vs. Vitess

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

quasar.ai

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

vitess.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Google

Oracle

quasardb

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2010

2007

2009

2012

2013

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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