DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

kx.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

code.kx.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Google

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Initial release

2008

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

1995

2009

Current release

3.6, May 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

integer and binary

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

via views

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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