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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Ignite vs. Memcached vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF 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
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comignite.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20072015200320182019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1Apache Ignite 2.61.6.25, March 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++, Java, .NetCProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityJournaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole-based access control

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