DBMS > GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2023.3, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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