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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerorigodb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsorigodb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleRobert Friberg et alAurelius, owned by DataStaxApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172009 infounder the name LiveDB20122014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoyes
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
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetClojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritydepending on modelyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based authorizationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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