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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache vs. RocksDB

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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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#276	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Kyligence, Inc.

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2016

2005

2013

Current release

15.5, September 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

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

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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