DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

quasardb

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2010

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

1999

Current release

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

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

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

integer and binary

Numeric data only

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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