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DBMS > GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Yaacomo

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracleQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20072008200320072009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 20231.6.25, March 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsnoyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated Mapnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
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 AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate 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 commitednoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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