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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational 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
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtableopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152011201520131987
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
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 HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoDocument is locked during a transactionyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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