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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. NCache vs. RisingWave vs. Trafodion

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 WhisperOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.risingwave.com/­databasetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisAlachisoftRisingWave LabsApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20152006200520222014
Current release5.3.3, April 20241.2, September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaRustC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlypartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRUDFs in Python or JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google Cloud BigtableGraphiteNCacheRisingWaveTrafodion
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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