DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Google

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

quasardb

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2005

2009

2005

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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