DBMS > BigObject vs. GigaSpaces vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GigaSpaces vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.gigaspaces.com

nsdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2000

2017

1984

2021

Current release

15.5, September 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users and groups

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