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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. searchxml vs. Typesense

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

opennms.github.io/newts

www.searchxml.net/category/products

typesense.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Google

Hypertable Inc.

OpenNMS Group

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2017

2009

2014

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

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

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

multiple readers, single writer

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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