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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. YottaDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceyottadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20172006201120072001
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesno
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 indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nononoby using the Octo plugin
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
Telnet API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes 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 dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoconfigurableoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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