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DBMS > GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TigerGraph

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20072017201320102017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in LuaJava, SQLyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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