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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	24.48
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.83
Rank	#91	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

newdatabase.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Mobiland AG

Google

Initial release

2008

2018

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Windows-Profile

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

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