DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Microsoft

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2010

2012

2008

1992

Current release

15.5, September 2020

8.0.36-28, 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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