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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Rockset

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rockset

Initial release

2010

2005

2013

2003

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

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