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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GBase vs. GridGain

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.94
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#151	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#25	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.gbase.cn

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

DataStax

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2004

2007

Current release

6.8, April 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

yes (replicated cache)

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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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