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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Kdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.06
Rank	#90	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	8.28
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

kx.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

code.kx.com

Developer

Google

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2016

Current release

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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)

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

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7 September 2016, InfoWorld

Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
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Google introduces Cloud Bigtable managed NoSQL database to process data at scale
6 May 2015, VentureBeat

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