DBMS > Databend vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Databend Labs

Google

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2021

2010

2009

1998

1999

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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