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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Immudb vs. Riak TS

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Name

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 immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.56
Rank	#97	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#294	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#317	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.immudb.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Google

Codenotary

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2020

2015

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like syntax

yes, limited

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

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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