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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GridGain vs. SingleStore vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMySQL 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 typeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.singlestore.comterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFatCloudGridGain Systems, Inc.SingleStore Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122007201320181987
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.18.5, January 202411.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#Java, C++, .NetC++, GoProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (WOQL)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
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyesyes
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FatDBGridGainSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTransbase
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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