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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. JanusGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. Yanza

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerjanusgraph.orgobjectbox.iordf4j.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Yanza
Initial release20172017201720042015
Current release0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nononono
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
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary native APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
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)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryesnono
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