DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. Tigris vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. Tigris vs. TypeDB

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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

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tigrisdata.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Tigris Data, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2000

2021

2022

2016

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

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

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

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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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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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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