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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Spatial extension of H2

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2gis.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

FatCloud

Gigaspaces Technologies

CNRS

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2013

2016

Current release

15.5, September 2020

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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