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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfinityDB vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtableboilerbay.comswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleBoiler Bay Inc.Simer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2015200220182011
Current release4.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
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 infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoBased on Windows Authentication

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