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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	36.00
Rank	#24	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#313	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#110	Overall
	#5	Graph DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#70	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.datajaguar.com

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.datajaguar.com/support.php

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2015

2017

2012

Current release

2.9.4 September 2018

0.5.2, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) for whole datasets, not for individual tables

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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Specific characteristics

SQL support, group by, order by, join
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Competitive advantages

Extremely easy to scale-out (in seconds) 100,000 times faster
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Typical application scenarios

IoT data, time series data, AI data. Any type of numerical data.
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Key customers

Quantea, 2PiDay, Synqy, SinoLogistics, IIVI
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Market metrics

Advertising awareness, installed base, brand image, market share
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Licensing and pricing models

Free-trial license, per-node license, and subscription license.
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