DBMS > GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. NCache vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. NCache vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

2015

2005

2014

2016

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.3 July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

rights management via user accounts

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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