DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Google

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2014

2009

1998

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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