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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Solr

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesopentsdb.netsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogleGoogleMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172014201220112006
Current release2.1.12, February 20179.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
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
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava plugins
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDoptimistic lockingnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoyes

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