DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Google

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

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