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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. Newts

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.EmbarcaderoOpenNMS Group
Initial release20002015200219842014
Current release15.5, September 2020Apache Ignite 2.64.0InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .NetJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 metadatayesnono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes (replicated cache)noneInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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