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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2 vs. RavenDB

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.68
Rank	#92	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	9.83
Rank	#51	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#94	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.h2database.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2017

2005

2010

Current release

2.1.210, January 2022

5.3, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Java Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

MapReduce functions can be defined in Linq

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control on document level using the Authorization Bundle

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Specific characteristics

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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