DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TigerGraph

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

MonetDB BV

Oracle

Initial release

2008

2004

2011

2017

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

yes

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.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

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 and roles

Role-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

What Is Google Cloud? Platform, Benefits & More Explained
11 September 2024, Cloudwards

Google Gets Rid of Fees To Transfer Data Out of Cloud Platform
12 January 2024, Spiceworks News and Insights

Best cloud storage of 2024
13 September 2024, TechRadar

17 Top Cloud Storage Companies to Know
9 April 2024, Built In

Google says it’ll stop charging fees to transfer data out of Google Cloud
11 January 2024, TechCrunch

provided by Google News

MonetDB Foundation launched
31 January 2024, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R — Part I
6 April 2018, Data Science Central

How MonetDB/X100 Exploits Modern CPU Performance
14 January 2020, Towards Data Science

Monet DB The Column-Store Pioneer
4 September 2019, Open Source For You

ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles
25 May 2022, The Register

provided by Google News

OpenWorld 2013: Oracle NoSQL Database On the Rise?
13 December 2023, Channel Futures

Cloud database comparison: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle
24 July 2024, TechTarget

Top 8 Best NoSQL Databases in 2024
9 September 2024, AIM

Explore Oracle Database Solutions for Maximum Efficiency
4 September 2018, Oracle

NoSQL Rebels Aim Missile at Larry Ellison's Yacht
20 July 2012, WIRED

provided by Google News

TigerGraph Unveils CoPilot, Version 4.0, and New CEO
30 April 2024, Datanami

TigerGraph unveils GenAI assistant, introduces new CEO
30 April 2024, TechTarget

How TigerGraph CoPilot enables graph-augmented AI
30 April 2024, InfoWorld

graph database Archives
26 June 2024, insideBIGDATA

TigerGraph Bolsters DB for Enterprise Graph Workloads
1 November 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

Share this page