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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. gStore vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

en.gstore.cn

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

2016

2019

2008

Current release

1.2, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

none

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

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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