DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2007

2014

2020

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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