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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GridGain vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gridgain.com

rockset.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.rockset.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Rockset

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2007

2019

1998

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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