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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2000

2017

2007

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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