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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007200220182022
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.02023.3, June 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoyesyes, based on authentication and database rules
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