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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Kinetica vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.kinetica.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.kinetica.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Kinetica

SADAS s.r.l.

Mireo

Initial release

2000

2012

2006

2020

Current release

15.5, September 2020

7.1, August 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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