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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GridGain vs. InfinityDB vs. OrientDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.gridgain.comboilerbay.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseGridGain Systems, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release1999200720022010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023GridGain 8.5.14.03.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noJava, Javascript
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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