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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2manticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2manual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBMManticore SoftwareOracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20101983 infohost version201720112014
Current release12.1, October 20166.0, February 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles
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Google BigQueryIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Manticore SearchOracle NoSQLQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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