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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesHazelcastSpotifyActian CorporationPercona
Initial release2000200820141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current release15.5, September 20205.3.6, November 202311.2, May 20223.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-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 metadatayes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoyesJavaScript
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infoEventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoReplicated MapyesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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