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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 BigTableOpen Source Time Series DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablehbase.apache.orgsiridb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.siridb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCesbitSiteWhereJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152008201720102019
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoNumeric datayesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
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
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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