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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. OceanBase

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikien.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20072008201320032010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 20232.7.6, April 20241.6.25, March 20244.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnonoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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