DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Spatial extension of H2

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.h2gis.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.mireo.com/spacetime

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Google

CNRS

Qdrant

Mireo

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2013

2021

2020

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

based on H2

Collection-level replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on H2

Key-based authentication

yes

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