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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Application development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDataStaxGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatProgress Software CorporationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20112000201419842009
Current release6.8, April 202015.5, September 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesErlang
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access controlnoUsers and groupsyes, using Riak Security
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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