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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#99	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#189	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

2017

2022

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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