DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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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 key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2000

2003

2013

2020

1999

Current release

15.5, September 2020

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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