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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

nsdb.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2008

2010

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

V12

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

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++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

depending on model

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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