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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Trafodion

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA 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 widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­spannerhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJStrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJStrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleHazelcastApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172017200820142014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20215.3.6, November 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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