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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

LeanXcale

Initial release

2007

1997

2015

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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