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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Newts

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kyligence, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2015

2010

2016

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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