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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

sphinxsearch.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2009

2001

1984

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

links between data sets can be stored

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

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)

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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