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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperRackspaceGoogleMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20132010201620112014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQLnouser defined functions
Triggersnonononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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