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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. GridGain vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.datomic.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.datomic.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cognitect

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Baidu

Initial release

2015

2012

2007

2018

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Transaction Functions

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

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes (replicated cache)

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

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