DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

boilerbay.com

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

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2002

2012

2017

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

optimistic locking

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)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role-based access control

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