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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score52.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score41.32
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­hanasitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSAPSiteWhere
Initial release20101989201420102010
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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