DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

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

www.postgres-xl.org

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Speedb

Initial release

2010

1991

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

5.7

7.4.1.1, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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