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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigrisdata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogleSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102014201420221987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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