DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Google

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2010

2016

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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