DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.gstore.cn

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

prometheus.io

questdb.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

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

prometheus.io/docs

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2010

2016

1991

2015

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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