DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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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

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

2008

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

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

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

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

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

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