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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 WhispermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrocksdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisHughes TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2017200619942013
Current release4.4, October 20219.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
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
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
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 isolationnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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)nonono

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