DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#76	Overall
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2010

2008

2014

2019

Current release

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

User concepts

Access control

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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