DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.jaguardb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2006

2016

2015

1989

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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