DBMS > Dolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google'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

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Google

Chris Davis

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2018

2010

2015

2006

2004

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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