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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GridGain vs. NSDb vs. SingleStore vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

nsdb.io

www.singlestore.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

FatCloud

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2007

2017

2013

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java, Scala

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

64 bit version required

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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