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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergreenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperGooglePivotal Software Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2017200520152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.3 July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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