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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PieCloudDB vs. STSdb

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastoregriddb.netwww.hawkular.orgwww.openpie.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.griddb.netwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperGoogleToshiba CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatOpenPieSTS Soft SC
Initial release2008201320142011
Current release5.1, August 20222.1, January 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Enginenonouser defined functionsno
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID at container levelnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud DatastoreGridDBHawkular MetricsPieCloudDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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