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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

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