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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Tarantool

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareVK
Initial release2008201020172008
Current release6.0, February 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)noSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
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 ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes
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 possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
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 databasenoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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