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DBMS > etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geospock.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072010
Current release3.4, August 20192.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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