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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.04
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#157  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#3  Object oriented DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20102007
Current release8.1, December 2018GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial, open source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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