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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Trino

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergreptime.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbtrino.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.greptime.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperGoogleGreptime Inc.MicrosoftTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2017202220142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageRustJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query languageyes
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
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonJavaScriptyes, depending on connected data-source
TriggersnoJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitiondepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Simple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud SpannerGreptimeDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBTrino
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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