DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

nsdb.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2013

2017

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

Java
Scala

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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