DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

quasardb

SiteWhere

Initial release

2010

2015

2009

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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