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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HarperDB vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PieCloudDB

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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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.harperdb.io

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Google

HarperDB

MonetDB BV

Oracle

OpenPie

Initial release

2015

2017

2004

2007

Current release

3.1, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

14.1, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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
Immediate 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

optionally

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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