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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesLeanXcalePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000201520142019
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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 metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infothrough Apache Derbynono
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
Java
Scala
JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno

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