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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Qdrant

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 columnsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleMonetDB BVOracleQdrant
Initial release2017200420072021
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
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
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
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 statusyes, with selectable consistency levelCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationKey-based authentication

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