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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. PieCloudDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

OpenPie

Initial release

2000

1984

2021

Current release

15.5, September 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Users and groups

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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