DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. NCache

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dgraph.io/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Initial release

2014

2016

2007

1995

2005

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Planned for future releases

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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