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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. GridDB vs. GridGain vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.griddb.net

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Toshiba Corporation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2010

2013

2007

2012

Current release

5.1, August 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

.NET

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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