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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP IQ vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2010

1994

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL for querying

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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