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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. QuestDB vs. RDFox vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

questdb.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

questdb.io/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

QuestDB Technology Inc

Oxford Semantic Technologies

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2011

2018

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

over HTTP

C
Java

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

replication via a shared file system

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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 for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Roles, resources, and access types

Role-based access control

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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

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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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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