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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.gridgain.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2015

2007

2013

2010

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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