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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesHibernating RhinosAlessandro FurieriDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201020082018
Current release15.5, September 202010 R1, October 20185.4, July 20225.0.0, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC#C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)yesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoRole-based access control

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