DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

kairosdb.github.io

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Google

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Symas

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2013

1999

2011

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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