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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESThelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftPerconaSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20102012200819922001
Current release8.0.36-28, 202417, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataoptimistic lockingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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