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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.monetdb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

origodb.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.nuodb.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

MonetDB BV

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

Initial release

2015

2004

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

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)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

yes

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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