DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cassandra.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2008

2007

1984

2018

Current release

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes, on a single node

Atomic execution of operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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