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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergriddb.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.griddb.netdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleToshiba CorporationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172013201720102018
Current release5.1, August 20226.0, Septermber 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemaspredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
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
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID at container levelACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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