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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. mSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opentsdb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Google

Hughes Technologies

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

1994

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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)

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

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