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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 libraryEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmemgraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmemgraph.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogleSymasGoogleMemgraph LtdOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152011201420172009
Current release0.9.32, January 20242.1.12, February 20173.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlang
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoUsers, roles and permissionsyes, using Riak Security
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