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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HugeGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

boilerbay.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Baidu

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

2002

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

0.9

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

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