DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

1984

2013

1999

1992

Current release

15.5, September 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

export as XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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