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DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA 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 modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudGeoSpockGoogle
Initial release20122017
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyes
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Implementation languageC#Java, Javascript
Server operating systemsWindowshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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