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

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

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Enhanced 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 environments

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2010

2012

2008

1992

2010

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

17, July 2015

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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