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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20172014200920062020
Current release3.2.0, December 20228.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoyesSQL-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
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangnono
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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