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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP infoformerly SybaseVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20002018201019922011
Current release15.5, September 20200.917, July 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-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 infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno 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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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