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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. YDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. YDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.70
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#266  Overall
#41  Document stores
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#320  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperGoogleYandexYandex
Initial release201720192023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (YQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
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
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Active-passive shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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)Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersAccess Control Lists

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