DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Gigaspaces Technologies

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2007

2003

2013

Current release

15.5, September 2020

GridGain 8.5.1

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

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

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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