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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. GigaSpaces

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Name

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.87
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#28	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2012

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of 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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

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The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model?
29 August 2017, Luca Olivari (guest author)

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