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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

nsdb.io

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2017

2000

2020

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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