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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
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Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

Qdrant

Rockset

Initial release

2010

2006

2021

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Python

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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