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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/siridb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.siridb.com
DeveloperExasolGigaspaces TechnologiesHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Cesbit
Initial release20002000200920172017
Current release15.5, September 20200.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infoNumeric data
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 metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnonosimple rights management via user accounts

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