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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. Infobright vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleThomas MuellerIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20002017200520052011
Current release15.5, September 20202.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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