DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2013

2012

2021

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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