DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

griddb.net

sqream.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.griddb.net

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Google

Toshiba Corporation

SQream Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2013

2017

2011

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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

ACID at container level

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.

yes

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 can be defined per database

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