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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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 hybrid, in-memory first, distributed graph DBMS delivering high-performance on analytical and transactional workloads at enterprise scale

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.52
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#310	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.memgraph.com

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2017

Current release

0.9.5951, July 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

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