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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogleThomas Muellerquasardb
Initial release20172005201320152009
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
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
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infoTransient mode
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-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Google Cloud SpannerH2InfluxDBPrometheusQuasardb
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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