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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NCache vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

siridb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.siridb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Alachisoft

Cesbit

SiteWhere

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2005

2017

2010

2019

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

Numeric data

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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