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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

postgis.net

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2007

2009

2005

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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