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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	51.18
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.64
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	101.91
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#267	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2010

1992

2000

2019

Current release

17, July 2015

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

via file-system locks

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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