DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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