DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.harperdb.io

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

HarperDB

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.1, August 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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