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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Spark SQL vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Spark SQL vs. YDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
spark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationYandex
Initial release20002010201620142019
Current release15.5, September 20205.10, January 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net.NET and CC++ and CUDAScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 statementsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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