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DBMS > Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA 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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannernsdb.iowww.postgres-xl.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleYanza
Initial release2002201720172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release1.1, February 201710 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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