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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.marklogic.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.marklogic.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatGoogleMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20072014201420142001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.1.12, February 201711.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular AlertingyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnononoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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