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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Kdb vs. LeanXcale vs. Qdrant vs. STSdb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance Time Series DBMSA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comkx.comwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcode.kx.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcLeanXcaleQdrantSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201520212011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.6, May 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetqRustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (q)yes infothrough Apache Derbynono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
Java
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accountsKey-based authenticationno
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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