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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Ingres vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. TimesTen

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsWell established RDBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score3.75
Rank#88  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.progress.com/­openedgeprometheus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestprometheus.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesActian CorporationProgress Software CorporationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20001974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s198420151998
Current release15.5, September 202011.2, May 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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