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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. jBASE vs. NCache

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.h2database.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

Thomas Mueller

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Initial release

2015

2006

2005

1991

2005

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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)

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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