DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Speedb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Speedb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.speedb.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Chris Davis

Speedb

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2017

2006

2020

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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