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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Google

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2015

2008

2004

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong 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.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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