DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

spark.apache.org/sql

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

TempoIQ

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2014

2012

1987

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

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

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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)

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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