DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

nsdb.io

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Google

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2010

2017

2015

1987

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

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) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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