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DBMS > GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystemsVaticle
Initial release200719972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2016
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20182.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSynchronous replication via raft
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 integritynoyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Access rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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GridGainInterSystems CachéPostgres-XLTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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