DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.hawkular.org

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

2014

2009

Current release

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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