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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Spatial extension of H2Serverless Time Series DBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2gis.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperGoogleCNRSHyprcubd, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release2017201319972009
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query languageyesno
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 (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2noyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2token accessAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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