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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerboilerbay.comrethinkdb.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualrethinkdb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleBoiler Bay Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20172002200920122018
Current release4.02.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
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
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
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)noyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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