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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablerocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleHypertable Inc.Facebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152009201320012018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20169.4.0, June 20243.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
C++ API
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesnoneJournaling Streams
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononoRole-based access control

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