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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. JSqlDb vs. KairosDB vs. SAP IQ

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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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2018

2013

1994

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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)

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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