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

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	1.33
Rank	#154	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

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

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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