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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LeanXcale vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LeanXcale vs. searchxml

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Serverless Time Series DBMSA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.harperdb.iohyprcubd.com (offline)www.leanxcale.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogleHarperDBHyprcubd, Inc.LeanXcaleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2017201720152015
Current release3.1, August 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
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
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
gRPC (https)JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes infoon the application server
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolestoken accessDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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