DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

InterSystems

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

Initial release

2015

2018

2010

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

0.8, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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