DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Google

Embarcadero

Oushu

quasardb

Initial release

2010

1984

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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