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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Titan

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 ElasticSearchTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.05
Rank#191  Overall
#31  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2000201419842012
Current release15.5, September 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesno
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
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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