DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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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	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2013

2016

2014

2001

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

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

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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