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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. KeyDB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. KeyDB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.Spatial extension of H2An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#219  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
opennms.github.io/­newtstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleCNRSEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OpenNMS Group
Initial release20172013201920142009
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnonono
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
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP REST
Java API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Luanono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
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 Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2simple password-based access control and ACLnono

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