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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Memcached vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.memcached.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseGigaspaces TechnologiesDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19992000200319942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202315.5, September 20201.6.27, May 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetCCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnonoyes
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoRole based authorization

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