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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. TerarkDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.graphengine.ioignite.apache.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualapacheignite.readme.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2000201020152016
Current release15.5, September 2020Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net.NET and CC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 metadatanoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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