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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memcached vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memcached vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA 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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.memcached.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSybase, SAPByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122017200319932016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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