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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

sql.js.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

1984

2012

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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