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DBMS > BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score52.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleTimescale
Initial release20152017201020132017
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.7.6, April 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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