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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.70
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#17  Vector DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#33  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score6.70
Rank#52  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperGoogleDataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftIBMTranswarp
Initial release2017201520162000
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyesSQL-like query language
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonoyes
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 integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accountsyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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Google Cloud SpannerJaguarDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMTranswarp StellarDB
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