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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	35.90
Rank	#24	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	4.94
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#163	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2012

2017

Current release

2.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Hash and Range Sharding

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.

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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) for whole datasets, not for individual tables

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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