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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatActian Corporation
Initial release200020141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2005
Current release15.5, September 202011.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 metadatanono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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