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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. NCache

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Serverless Time Series DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatHyprcubd, Inc.Alachisoft
Initial release2017200620142005
Current release5.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTgRPC (https)IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnononooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonotoken accessAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Google Cloud SpannerGraphiteHawkular MetricsHyprcubdNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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