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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. LevelDB vs. Rockset

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2gis.orghyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­google/­leveldbrockset.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogleCNRSHyprcubd, Inc.GoogleRockset
Initial release2017201320112019
Current release1.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnodynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query languagenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
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)HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infobased on H2noneyes
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 ConsistencyEventual 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 isolationACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2token accessnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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