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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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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.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.openpie.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

OpenPie

SiteWhere

Initial release

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

2.1, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

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)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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Google Cloud makes it cheaper to run smaller workloads on Bigtable
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