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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Derby vs. GigaSpaces vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iodb.apache.org/­derbywww.gigaspaces.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software FoundationGigaspaces TechnologiesquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20131997200020092008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202315.5, September 20203.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen 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 languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyesnono
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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