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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissplicemachine.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleIBMInterSystemsSplice Machine
Initial release20152014201820142017
Current release2023.3, June 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes infoJavayes
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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