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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2005

2007

2003

2010

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

1.6.27, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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