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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactionsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMSDocument 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comhive.apache.orgboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release20002012200220152004
Current release15.5, September 20203.1.3, April 20224.0V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factornoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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