DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Google

Chris Davis

Tencent

Initial release

2005

2010

2015

2006

2013

Current release

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

locking

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

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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