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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablecloud.google.com/­datastorehive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152008201220182019
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.91.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, details hereyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App Engineyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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