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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperGoogleActian CorporationSimer Plaha
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201320172018
Current release11.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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