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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2017201019942009 infounder the name LiveDB2008
Current release4.4, October 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesUser 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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based authorizationno

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