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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Solr

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.gridgain.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.OracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20152007201320112006
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.7.6, April 202423.3, December 20239.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsoptionalyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoJava plugins
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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