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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2007

2010

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2003

1987

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

11.5.2, August 2024

1.6.29, June 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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