DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

1984

2016

2014

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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