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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. GigaSpaces vs. PouchDB

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Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.gigaspaces.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Mobiland AG

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2000

2012

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

15.5, September 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Role-based access control

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