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DBMS > GridGain vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.keydb.devwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20072014201920152009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noLuayes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access control and ACLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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