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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. Solr vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelEvent StoreKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.gridgain.comignite.apache.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationRocket Software
Initial release20122007201520061985
Current release21.2, February 2021GridGain 8.5.1Apache Ignite 2.69.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .NetJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingoptional
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java pluginsyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)spark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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