DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

2010

2015

2012

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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