DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

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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

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store

If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types/dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store

this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	3.28
Rank	#83	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2014

2019

2010

1994

Current release

15.5, September 2020

cloud service with continuous releases

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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