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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsFully managed big data interactive analytics platformApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoIf 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 infothis 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 infosupport 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 infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.94
Rank#194  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.00
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.56
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOracle
Initial release2000201919842007
Current release15.5, September 2020cloud service with continuous releasesOpenEdge 12.2, March 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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 metadatayesyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationUsers and groupsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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