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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Altibase

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1999

2000

2010

1993

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

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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