DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. PieCloudDB 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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

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

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenPie

SAP

Initial release

2000

1991

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

5.7

2.1, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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