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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20002010200620161993
Current release15.5, September 20205.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net.NET and CPythonC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoyes
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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GigaSpacesGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityGraphiteHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
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