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DBMS > GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release2007200820141984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-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
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated MapnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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