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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Widely used in-process key-value storeRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSAP infoformerly SybaseVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20002013199419922011
Current release15.5, September 20201.2.2, November 201818.1.40, May 202017, July 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 metadatanoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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