DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Google

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2015

2017

2018

2014

2006

Current release

2.0

0.8, December 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Active-active shard replication

none

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

none

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 operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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