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

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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 interfaceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.Simer PlahaTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20152006200220182022
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes
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 capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
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)
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenonenoneyes
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)noneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono 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 operationsnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononoAccess rights for users and roles

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