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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Ingres vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Ingres vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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.Well established RDBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrdf4j.orgwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperGoogleActian CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20042020
Current release11.2, May 20222.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesIngres Replicatornone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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