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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 WhisperServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhyprcubd.com (offline)www.memcached.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisHyprcubd, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release201520062003
Current release1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringno
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC (https)Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
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)notoken accessyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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