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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20142010200720142003
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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