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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Splunk

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegreenplum.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGooglePivotal Software Inc.MicrosoftSplunk Inc.
Initial release2015200520122003
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDoptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and roles

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