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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. QuestDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbquestdb.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­docquestdb.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SymasQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20082010201120142017
Current release0.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)nonoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonoyes
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.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
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 databasenoRole-based access control
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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