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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannernsdb.ioopentsdb.netorigodb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRobert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201720112009 infounder the name LiveDB2014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC#Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
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
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.NetJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationnone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noRole based authorizationno

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