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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EJDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Altibase

Softmotions

Gigaspaces Technologies

Spotify

Initial release

1999

2012

2000

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Role-based access control

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