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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

1993

2004

Current release

15.5, September 2020

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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