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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Newts vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Google

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Qdrant

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2014

2021

1992

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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