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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.hawkular.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseprometheus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatEmbarcaderoSimer Plaha
Initial release20172014198420152018
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesnono
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
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change Viewsyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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