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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trino

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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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.80
Rank	#91	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	5.40
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.sequoiadb.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Document is locked during a transaction

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

SQL standard access control

More information provided by the system vendor

News

68: Year of the Snake - Python UDFs
16 January 2025

Trino in 2024 and beyond
7 January 2025

Trino Summit 2024 resources
18 December 2024

The long journey to Apache Ranger
2 December 2024

The glorious lineup for Trino Summit 2024
22 November 2024

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1 August 2024, InfoWorld

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1 August 2024, TechTarget

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1 August 2024, TechCrunch

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9 August 2022, TechTarget

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30 March 2022, hackernoon.com

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