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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A multi-model DBMS and application serverHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachekx.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.intersystems.comcode.kx.com
DeveloperRackspaceGoogleInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2013201519972000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts
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BluefloodGoogle Cloud BigtableInterSystems CachéKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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