DBMS > Altibase vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake

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Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
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Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
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Score	0.33
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
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Website

altibase.com

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2002

2015

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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