DBMS > FatDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Newts vs. QuestDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Newts vs. QuestDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

opennms.github.io/newts

questdb.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

questdb.io/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Google

OpenNMS Group

QuestDB Technology Inc

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

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