DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake

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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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

High performance Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

kx.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

code.kx.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Baidu

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

via hugegraph-spark

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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