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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Exasol

Google

Speedb

Initial release

2000

2010

2013

2020

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

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