DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Kingbase vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Kingbase vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kingbase.com.cn

quasar.ai

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Google

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

quasardb

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

1999

2009

2017

2012

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

C
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

by using LevelDB

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Roles, resources, and access types

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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