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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10 vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.warp10.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

SenX

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2000

1995

1985

2015

2017

Current release

15.5, September 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

WarpScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

based on HBase

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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