DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

Google

SiteWhere

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2016

2014

2010

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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