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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. mSQL vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2010

1994

2015

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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