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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Quasardb vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Quasardb vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTime Series DBMS and big data platformIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbquasar.aigithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tdengine.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftquasardbTDEngine, previously Taos DataOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102014200920191998
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.0, August 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptJavaScriptnonoPL/SQL
TriggersnoJavaScriptnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*with Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google BigQueryMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBQuasardbTDengineTimesTen
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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