DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	62.17
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#303	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

trafodion.apache.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2014

2001

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Docker
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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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