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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

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

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2014

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

yes, each node contains all data

Active-passive shard replication

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.

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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