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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesHypertable Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2000200920142013
Current release15.5, September 20200.9.8.11, March 201615.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 metadatano
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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