DBMS > Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

dgraph.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2013

2012

Current release

3.3 July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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