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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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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	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2000

2010

1984

1998

2019

Current release

15.5, September 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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