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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LMDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  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 WhisperA widely adopted in-memory data gridA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial 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
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.heavy.aiwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisHazelcastHEAVY.AI, Inc.Symas
Initial release20152006200820162011
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.10, January 20220.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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