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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces InsightEdge vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP IQ

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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 horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.73
Rank	#199	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	4.97
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

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

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2017

1994

Current release

15.5, September 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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 with 3 replicas for regional instances.

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Hadoop integration

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

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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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