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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeorigodb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200720172009 infounder the name LiveDB2001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Active-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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