DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine vs. Transbase vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine vs. Transbase vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

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

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

docs.tdengine.com

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

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Transaction Software GmbH

Ultipa

Initial release

2010

2014

2019

1987

2019

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.0, August 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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