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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. JaguarDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.80
Rank	#91	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#18	Vector DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.jaguardb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

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.

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Document is locked during a transaction

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)

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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