DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. TDengine

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Google

Circonus LLC.

IBM

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2010

2017

2000

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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