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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.gigaspaces.com

google.github.io/lovefield

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Rackspace

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

2017

2020

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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