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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 ElasticSearchRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20002014201520152009
Current release15.5, September 20203.0.0, September 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
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 Elasticsearchrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes, limitednono
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
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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