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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. NuoDB vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.tarantool.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldoc.nuodb.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.VKRocket Software
Initial release2000201320081985
Current release15.5, September 20202.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeoptional
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 metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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