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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Rockset vs. Sqrrl vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Rockset vs. Sqrrl vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablerockset.comsqrrl.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.rockset.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperGoogleRocksetAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.STS Soft SCVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20152019201220112010
Current release4.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxWindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entitynoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)noUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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