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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Speedb vs. Trafodion

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 simplicityCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.scylladb.comwww.speedb.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.ScyllaDBSpeedbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20072017201520202014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luayes, LuanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infoin-memory tablesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GridGainIRONdbScyllaDBSpeedbTrafodion
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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