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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. RRDtool

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­doctechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGoogleSymasOpenNMS GroupTobias Oetiker
Initial release20152011201420141999
Current release0.9.32, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptJavaC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononono

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