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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2006

2008

2013

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

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 or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

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