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DBMS > GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDFox vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDFox vs. Titan

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Oxford Semantic TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20072014198420172012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.4.1.1, 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesnono
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
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesreplication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRoles, resources, and access typesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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