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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Newts

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftChris DavisOpenNMS Group
Initial release2015201020062014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonJava
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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