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

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

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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 casesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4us.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storetechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperGoogleIBMSTS Soft SCTmaxSoftTranswarp
Initial release2017201720112003
Current release2.04.0.8, September 20156, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#C and Assembler
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyesyes
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
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
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
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Active-active shard replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infoplanned for next version
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-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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