DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

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

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1979

2000

2010

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

V3, October 2020

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

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

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Role-based access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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