DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP IQ

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2016

2012

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optimistic locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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