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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

2012

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

no

Triggers

no

no

Using read-only observers

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

no

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

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

no

no

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