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DBMS > GridGain vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWell established RDBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheobjectbox.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Actian CorporationInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedTranswarp
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19972017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.2, May 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and server
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes
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