DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. YTsaurus

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Google

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

2023

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

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.

Immediate 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

ACID

MVCC

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.

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 Control Lists

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

Google Cloud vs AWS: Which Cloud Computing Platform is Better?
11 September 2024, Cloudwards

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

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

Google App Engine
26 April 2024, TechTarget

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

provided by Google News

Yandex Unveils YaFSDP for 26% Faster LLM Training
11 June 2024, AIM

provided by Google News

Share this page