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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score1.04
Rank#179  Overall
#29  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score19.70
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release20002005
Current release15.5, September 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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