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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hive vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hive vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerhive.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMonetDB BVOracle
Initial release2017201220042007
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
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
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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