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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. GridGain vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Time Series DBMS for big data, integrated with a lightweight distributed computing framework and a vector programming language

Fauna (previously named FaunaDB) provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#347	Overall
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Score	0.84
Rank	#186	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#137	Overall
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	#11	Graph DBMS
	#67	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#126	Overall
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	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dolphindb.com/help

docs.fauna.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/latest

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

2007

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Usage-based pricing including a free tier
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