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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.ai
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogleMonetDB BVOpenNMS GroupOraclequasardb
Initial release20172004201420072009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202314.1, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoSQL-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
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnonono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate 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 isolationACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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