DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

spark.apache.org/sql

swaydb.simer.au

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2014

2018

1999

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Atomic execution of operations

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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