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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. Sqrrl vs. Yanza

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

nsdb.io

sqrrl.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Google

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2017

2012

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Recent citations in the news

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Google Cloud makes it cheaper to run smaller workloads on Bigtable
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