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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. Sphinx

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.monetdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatMonetDB BVSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152006201420042001
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
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)noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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