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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valkey

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

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonValkey infoOpen source key/value datastore  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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source key/value datastore
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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Score2.80
Rank#91  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.sequoiadb.comvalkey.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexgithub.com/­valkey-io/­valkey
DeveloperGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201720132024
Current releaseValkey 8.0.1, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language
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
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScript
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control

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