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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Gigaspaces Technologies

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2015

2008

2000

2013

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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