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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LMDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LMDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 libraryDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGoogleSymasOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC8Kdata
Initial release20152011200920112016
Current release0.9.32, January 20243.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
WindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
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
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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and roles

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