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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. VoltDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA 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.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cncloud.google.com/­spannerrocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperEsgynGoogleFacebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20152017201319992010
Current release9.4.0, June 20241.8.0, 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnononoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationyesnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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