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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. WakandaDB

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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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.94
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.34
Rank	#50	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

realm.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

realm.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2014

2012

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

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