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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisCNRSMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20152006201320152015
Current releaseV11.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2noyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on H2yes infousing Azure authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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