DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2010

2009

2020

2016

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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)

yes, using Riak Security

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