DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rockset.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rockset.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

Rockset

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

SenX

Initial release

2010

2019

2014

1987

2015

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes

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)

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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