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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kuzu vs. Sequoiadb

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

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.80
Rank#91  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerkuzudb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.kuzudb.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201720222013
Current release0.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-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
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScript
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple password-based access control

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