DBMS > Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2020

2010

2015

2009

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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