DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2000

2009

2010

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar 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 on file system level

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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