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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.62
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2018

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

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

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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.

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

in-memory journaling

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

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)

Role-based access control

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