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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.iowww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGoogleOracleQuestDB Technology IncSnowflake Computing Inc.Yandex
Initial release20102011201420142019
Current release23.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writesACIDACID
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Google BigQueryOracle NoSQLQuestDBSnowflakeYDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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