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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

opennms.github.io/newts

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

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

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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