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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Multivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogleRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2015199320051987
Current release3.4-123.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Google Cloud BigtableOpenQM infoalso called QMPostGISTransbase
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