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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A 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 grid

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

hazelcast.com

objectbox.io

velocitydb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.objectbox.io

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

Hazelcast

ObjectBox Limited

VelocityDB Inc

Yanza

Initial release

2017

2008

2017

2011

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

.Net

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

Replicated Map

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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