DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.gigaspaces.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Gigaspaces Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2008

Current release

1703

15.5, September 2020

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

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-99 for query and DML statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

none

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

MVCC

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

LDAP bind authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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