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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

realm.io

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

realm.io/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

1987

2017

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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