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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#357	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Oushu

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

1984

2001

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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)

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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