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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GigaSpaces vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.greenplum.org

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Pivotal Software Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2015

2000

2005

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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