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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb vs. openGemini

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

nsdb.io

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

kairosdb.github.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Google

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2015

2013

2017

2022

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Administrators and common users accounts

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