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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperGoogleIBMAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release2017201720122011
Current release2.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes
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
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Active-active shard replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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