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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.pinecone.ioquasar.airocksdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGooglePinecone Systems, IncquasardbFacebook, Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102019200920131998
Current release3.14.1, January 20249.2.1, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnonoPL/SQL
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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