DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PlanetScale vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PlanetScale vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

planetscale.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

planetscale.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Google

InterSystems

PlanetScale

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2010

2013

2018

2020

2015

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2023.3, June 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

ACID at shard level

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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