DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2012

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

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

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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