DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2014

2006

Current release

15.5, September 2020

8.0

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

JavaScript

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

yes

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