DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sequoiadb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2013

2010

2013

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

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