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DBMS > GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 IgniteA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release2007199720132017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control

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