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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. openGauss

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial 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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cngitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release20002014201019992019
Current release15.5, September 2020V8.0, August 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangC and JavaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 metadatanonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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