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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release2000201320142012
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on H2noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 controlyes infobased on H2noAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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