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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#197	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#204	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

15.5, September 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GigaSpaces, the pioneer of In-Memory Computing , drives enterprise digital transformation...
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Competitive advantages

AI Driven Autonomous Operations – GigaSpaces’ unique AI driven technology simplifies...
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Typical application scenarios

Application Acceleration, Smart Caching, BI Acceleration on Fresh Data, Digital Integration...
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Key customers

Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, PriceRunner, Cerner, Societe Generale,...
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Market metrics

Forrester has positioned GigaSpaces as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™:...
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Licensing and pricing models

GigaSpaces offers both open source and commercial editions with annual subscriptions....
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Recent citations in the news

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27 January 2022, PRNewswire

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3 November 2021, PRNewswire

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15 November 2021, PRNewswire

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14 February 2020, Virtualization Review

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