DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value 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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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2010

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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

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