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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20152006201520022018
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.64.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, .NetJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes (replicated cache)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono

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