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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablesql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20152012201120052017
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JavaScript API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packagesyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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