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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces InsightEdge vs. MongoDB 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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#222	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	462.39
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	71.43
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.mongodb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.mongodb.com/manual

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

MongoDB, Inc

Teradata

Initial release

2000

2009

1984

Current release

15.5, September 2020

4.4.4 , February 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GigaSpaces, the pioneer of In-Memory Computing , drives enterprise digital transformation...
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MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose data platform, designed to unleash...
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Competitive advantages

AI Driven Autonomous Operations – GigaSpaces’ unique AI driven technology simplifies...
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The MongoDB platform can be used by developers building transactional, operational,...
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Typical application scenarios

Application Acceleration, Smart Caching, BI Acceleration on Fresh Data, Digital Integration...
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Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather...
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Key customers

Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, PriceRunner, Cerner, Societe Generale,...
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ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Forrester has positioned GigaSpaces as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™:...
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125 million downloads (growing at more than 30 thousand downloads per day), over...
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Licensing and pricing models

GigaSpaces offers both open source and commercial editions with annual subscriptions....
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MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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