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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorehbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaMonetDB BVinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20082008201220042015
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoon the application server
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonono
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 or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDmultiple readers, single writer
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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