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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Memcached

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comignite.apache.orgwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastApache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20122007200820152003
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021GridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 2023Apache Ignite 2.61.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, C++, .NetJavaC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesno
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.noyesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated Mapyes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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