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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	4.79
Rank	#65	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#337	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2000

2019

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

15.5, September 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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