DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine

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Name

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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Google

MonetDB BV

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2004

2010

1994

2014

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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