DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

greenplum.org

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Esgyn

Pivotal Software Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2005

2007

1997

2021

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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