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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KeyDB vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB 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.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.monetdb.org

www.openpie.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.keydb.dev

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Google

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

2019

2004

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Source-replica replication

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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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