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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastoreopentsdb.netsiridb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20082011201720011999
Current release3.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoNumeric datanoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIProprietary protocolODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Enginenononoyes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong 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 infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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