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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Google'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 engine

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.graphengine.io

wakanda.github.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

wakanda.github.io/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2010

2012

2001

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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