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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogleInterSystemsSequoiadb Ltd.Alex KashirinWakanda SAS
Initial release20172018201320202012
Current release2023.3, June 20230.5, April 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yessimple password-based access controlyes
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