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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SWC-DB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Role based authorization

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