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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

arcadedb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Arcade Data

Gigaspaces Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2021

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

September 2021

15.5, September 2020

10 R1, October 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

multiple readers, single writer

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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