DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2013

2006

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

Apache Ignite 2.6

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java plugins

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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