DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OceanBase vs. OpenQM vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OceanBase vs. OpenQM vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Google

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

2016

2010

1993

2012

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

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