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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
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	#59	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2011

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Role-based access control

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