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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graph Engine

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperSoftmotionsGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2012200020172010
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .Net.NET and C
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted.NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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