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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kinetica.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisKineticaSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2010200620122014
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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