DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. YDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. YDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2019

2017

Current release

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

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

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Active-passive shard replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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.

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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