DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

siridb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Percona

Cesbit

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2000

1989

2008

2017

2020

Current release

15.5, September 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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