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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YottaDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleSAP, SybaseYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19872001
Current release10 R1, October 201816.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesby using the Octo plugin
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infoMVCCACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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