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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablehbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2015200820162009 infounder the name LiveDB2009
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.NetC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain EventsClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
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)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesRole based authorizationyes infousers and table-level permissions

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