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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. OpenQM vs. Prometheus

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2007

2017

1993

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
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
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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