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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

orientdb.org

quasar.ai

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2010

2009

2020

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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