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DBMS > BigObject vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.memcached.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GoogleIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20152008201720032014
Current release2.01.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuausing Google App Engineyesnono
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using PaxosActive-active shard replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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BigObjectGoogle Cloud DatastoreIBM Db2 Event StoreMemcachedQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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