DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable vs. STSdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.h2database.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Community supported by Red Hat

Hypertable Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2005

2014

2009

2011

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong 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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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