DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

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

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2016

2012

2017

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role-based access control

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