DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

A 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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2017

2007

1994

2014

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes (replicated cache)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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