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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.gigaspaces.comnsdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedgewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesProgress Software CorporationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20152000201719842008
Current release15.5, September 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnoyesno
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlUsers and groupsno

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