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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablensdb.ioopentsdb.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015201720112012
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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 indexesnoall fields are automatically indexednoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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