DBMS > Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2002

2010

2013

2010

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.7.6, April 2024

V12

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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