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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. OrigoDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. OrigoDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 gridA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerhazelcast.comorigodb.comrealm.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsorigodb.com/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleHazelcastRobert Friberg et alRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alex Kashirin
Initial release201720082009 infounder the name LiveDB20142020
Current release5.3.6, November 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 strategyno infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
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
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyes infoDomain Eventsyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlRole based authorizationyes

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