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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. Teradata

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.com/­docsdocs.teradata.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogleEmbarcaderoMemgraph LtdTeradata
Initial release2017198420171984
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
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
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Interbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
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-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google Cloud SpannerInterbaseMemgraphTeradata
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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