DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

A 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

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.94
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2006

2011

2010

2016

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.6.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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