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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. Memgraph vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgmemgraph.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisMemgraph Ltdcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20172006200120172011
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesnono
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 API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenoneMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno
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Google Cloud SpannerGraphiteHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMemgraphOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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