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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Immudb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.immudb.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperGoogleHazelcastSpotifyCodenotaryPercona
Initial release20172008201420202015
Current release5.3.6, November 20231.2.3, April 20223.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like syntaxno
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
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnonoJavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoReplicated MapyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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