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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Gigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleChris DavisMonetDB BV
Initial release20172000201520062004
Current releaseNov 20, November 202115.5, September 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJava, C++, .NetPythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyesnonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes 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 consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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