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DBMS > GBase vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. Pinecone vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. Pinecone vs. Valentina Server

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comignite.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncParadigma Software
Initial release20042007201520191999
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.1Apache Ignite 2.65.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS 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
RESTful HTTP APIODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)yes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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