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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IRONdb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IRONdb vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycloud.google.com/­spannerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsGoogleCirconus LLC.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122016201720171987
Current release1.20.3, January 20231703V0.10.20, January 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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