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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. TDengine vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is 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.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.62
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.vertica.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.tdengine.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Google

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2019

2005

2009

Current release

3.0, August 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantages

High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenarios

TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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