DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. MaxDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. MaxDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.commaxdb.sap.comravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hibernating RhinosOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release20001984201020152020
Current release15.5, September 20207.9.10.12, February 20245.4, July 20223.0.0, September 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C#ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query language (RQL)yes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesErlangno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GigaSpacesMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRavenDBRiak TSSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Recent citations in the news

GigaSpaces to hand out almost $14 million in dividends following Cloudify’s acquisition by Dell
19 July 2023, CTech

Data Sciences Corporation partners with GigaSpaces Technologies to usher DIH technology to enterprises in SA
10 October 2023, ITWeb

GigaSpaces Announces Version 16.0 with Breakthrough Data Integration Tools to Ease Enterprises' Digital ...
3 November 2021, PR Newswire

GigaSpaces Spins Off Cloudify, Its Open Source Cloud Orchestration Unit
27 July 2017, Data Center Knowledge

Your occasional storage digest with GigaSpaces, Virtana and NAND ship data – Blocks and Files
7 December 2020, Blocks and Files

provided by Google News

SAP Content Server High Availability using Amazon EFS and SUSE | Amazon Web Services
30 December 2020, AWS Blog

Extended Maintenance Commitments Across SAP Solutions
11 August 2020, SAP News

What is SAP S/4HANA?
21 March 2022, TechTarget

Alibaba Cloud Offers Access to SAP Software for Customers
5 June 2018, Alizila

Dear SAP, Why Don't You Make Hana A Success?
28 July 2021, E3-Magazin

provided by Google News

RavenDB Launches Version 6.0 Lightning Fast Queries, Data Integrations, Corax Indexing Engine, and Sharding
3 October 2023, PR Newswire

Install the NoSQL RavenDB Data System
14 May 2021, The New Stack

RavenDB Adds Graph Queries
15 May 2019, Datanami

RavenDB Welcomes David Baruc as Chief Revenue Officer: Seasoned Tech Leader to Drive Global Sales and ...
13 June 2023, PR Newswire

Review: NoSQL database RavenDB
20 March 2019, TechGenix

provided by Google News

New Basho Data Platform Provides Operational Simplicity for Enterprise Big Data Applications
7 June 2015, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

2022 All O-Zone Football Team
17 December 2022, Ozarks Sports Zone

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here