DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

machbase.com/dbms

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Machbase

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2013

2009

2013

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.1.3, April 2022

V8.0, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Erlang

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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