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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

2015

2010

2012

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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)

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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