DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.timescale.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.timescale.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

Alachisoft

Mireo

Timescale

Rocket Software

Initial release

2010

2005

2020

2017

1985

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

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 and pessimistic locking

ACID

configurable

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)

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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