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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.gigaspaces.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Gigaspaces Technologies

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2000

1999

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

15.5, September 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java, C++, .Net

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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