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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datastax.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

DataStax

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1984

2011

2000

2021

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.8, April 2020

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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