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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greptime.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greptime.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Google

Greptime Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2010

2022

2013

2003

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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