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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. H2 vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. TimesTen

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

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
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Thomas Mueller

SAP

ScyllaDB

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2000

2005

2010

2015

1998

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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

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