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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. Transbase

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

1995

2005

1987

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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