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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Oracle vs. Speedb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Widely used RDBMS

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

Speedb

Teradata

Initial release

2000

1980

2020

2005

Current release

15.5, September 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

R packages

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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