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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tarantool.io

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2000

2013

1994

2008

1984

Current release

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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