DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Ingres

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleChris DavisActian Corporation
Initial release20162012201520061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC, C++PythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infolockingyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBangdbGoogle Cloud BigtableGraphiteIngres
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Paimon
16 April 2024, GlobeNewswire

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

Top data analytics tools comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM
5 December 2019, Wire19

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
19 April 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases
1 March 2024, Forbes

Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs
31 January 2022, InfoQ.com

Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
27 January 2022, TechTarget

Google introduces Cloud Bigtable managed NoSQL database to process data at scale
6 May 2015, VentureBeat

Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant NoSQL Database
6 May 2015, TechCrunch

provided by Google News

Try out the Graphite monitoring tool for time-series data
29 October 2019, TechTarget

Grafana Labs Announces Mimir Time Series Database
1 April 2022, Datanami

Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite
23 January 2015, InfoQ.com

The Billion Data Point Challenge: Building a Query Engine for High Cardinality Time Series Data
10 December 2018, Uber

The value of time series data and TSDBs
10 June 2021, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
26 December 2023, The Register

New startup from Postgres creator puts the database at heart of software stack
12 March 2024, TechCrunch

Actian Launches Ingres as a Fully-Managed Cloud Service
24 September 2021, Integration Developers

PostgreSQL now top developer choice ahead of MySQL, according to massive new survey • DEVCLASS
13 June 2023, DevClass

Dr. Michael Stonebraker: A Short History of Database Systems
1 February 2019, The New Stack

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here