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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB 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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2013

2017

2011

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

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)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

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