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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. gStore vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

en.gstore.cn

www.kinetica.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.kinetica.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Google

Kinetica

Initial release

2008

2016

2012

2017

Current release

1.2, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

C, C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

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)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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