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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph 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
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.snowflake.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceGoogleMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132010201620142022
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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