DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.gridgain.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rdf4j.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

rdf4j.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

GridGain Systems, Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2000

2007

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2004

2001

Current release

15.5, September 2020

GridGain 8.5.1

11.3.2, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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