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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsCloud-based data warehousing serviceAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesIBMOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2000201419982019
Current release15.5, September 2020Release 22.11.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLPL/SQLno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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