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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeA 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 WhisperIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.20
Rank#46  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score4.91
Rank#64  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#268  Overall
#43  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
cloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
cloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2017200620142011
Current release3.4, August 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
gRPC (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
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, watching key changesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoBased on Windows Authentication

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