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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.commachbase.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.MachbasePercona
Initial release20152006200220132015
Current release4.0V8.0, August 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJavaScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
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 infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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