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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TDengine

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Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Microsoft

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1997

2010

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V12

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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