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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Ignite vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Ignite vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastoreignite.apache.orgnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGoogleApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release20082015201720142014
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.63.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJava, ScalaScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes infoJava
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noYes, via Full Spark Integration
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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