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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 HBaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yottadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsJuxt Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20172006201120192001
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaClojureC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, extensible-data-notation formatno
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteby 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
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
Clojure
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all datayes
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 HBase
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 isolationnonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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