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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. JanusGraph

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comhbase.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20072008200920052017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 20160.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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