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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimesTen

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtableazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftMonetDB BVOpenPieOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2015201620041998
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud BigtableMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMonetDBPieCloudDBTimesTen
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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