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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Ignite vs. Tarantool

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#174  Overall
#29  Document stores
#8  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.14
Rank#83  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#157  Overall
#27  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comignite.apache.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software FoundationVK
Initial release200020152008
Current release15.5, September 2020Apache Ignite 2.62.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean
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 metadatayesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLFull-featured ANSI SQL support
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
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Lua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingHash sharding based on virtual buckets
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
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)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes, with SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles

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