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DBMS > GridGain vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. Memcached

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comignite.apache.orgjanusgraph.orgwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software FoundationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2007201520172003
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1Apache Ignite 2.60.6.3, February 20231.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .NetJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes (replicated cache)yesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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