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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. gStore vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

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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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.gstore.cn

prometheus.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Google

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2016

2015

2018

Current release

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

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